Showgirls

Sizzling, feverish melodrama set amid Mexico City’s red-light district nightclubs

Deliriously entertaining Mexican melodrama about an innocent young woman tricked into prostitution.

Ruth Rendell provides the source novel for this delicious tale of deception and identity, from the master of mischievous melodrama, François Ozon.

Carine Adler’s sexy and dark debut, starring Samantha Morton in her first major feature film role.

Fassbinder’s international breakthrough, this unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power.

Adam Driver excels in this effortlessly charming tale of a bus driver poet in New Jersey, filmed with typically groovy elan by Jim Jarmusch.

The late, great Harry Dean Stanton's finest role came as the near-mute Travis, on a journey across America to reunite his family, in Wim Wenders' moving tale of loss and redemption.

Edward Lovelace explores the power of communication and community with this rapturous portrait of a young deaf Kurdish boy.

Six-year-old Cléo spends a final summer with her beloved nanny Gloria, in this profoundly moving story of chosen family, duty and innocence lost.

Life begins at 70 for Mahin, who decides to shake her life up in this charming, quietly subversive tale from Iran.

Critic and broadcaster Rhianna Dhillon selects her pick of the films that will help you make a change for 2026.

Blending documentary and fiction, Alfréd Radok's remarkable film chronicling the Terezin ghetto was one of the first films to address the Holocaust.

Two Nigerian migrants dare to imagine a vibrant future outside of their confinement at a British immigration removal centre.

Audrey Tatou plays the shy waitress whose altruism leads to love, in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's BAFTA-winning hit romance.

Buñuel’s surreal, darkly satirical masterpiece about a group of wealthy dinner guests finding themselves inexplicably unable to leave the room.

Marina de Van’s deeply personal debut about a young woman's addiction to self-mutilation stretches the body horror genre in new ways.

Banned in Spain, condemned by the Vatican and celebrated at Cannes, Buñuel’s satire about an aspiring nun takes a stinging crack at society.